Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a
French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and
Georges Hartmann based on the German epistolary novel
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe. Although Massenet wrote and completed his opera
in 1887, it did not receive any performance until it
premiered at the Imperial Theatre Hofoper in Vienna on
February 16, 1892, in a German version translated by
Max Kalbeck. It had a great success. The
French-language premiere foll...(+)
Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a
French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and
Georges Hartmann based on the German epistolary novel
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe. Although Massenet wrote and completed his opera
in 1887, it did not receive any performance until it
premiered at the Imperial Theatre Hofoper in Vienna on
February 16, 1892, in a German version translated by
Max Kalbeck. It had a great success. The
French-language premiere followed in Geneva on December
27, 1892, and the first performance in France was at
the Opéra-Comique, Paris on January 16, 1893.
(Wikipedia)
The tenor voice part for solo repertory is always written in the treble clef, usually with the "8" at the bottom to represent that it is performed down the octave. This score is very challenging to read because of the excessive ledger lines... It would be better to use the right clef. Best wishes!
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